{"id":169,"date":"2014-05-23T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.wordpress.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:13:36","slug":"emergency-owlperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Owlperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been knitting like crazy this morning because I wanted to finish my shawl and show you a photo of it. But then I saw this:<a href=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn10991.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-172\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn10991.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"Image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One naughty owl was missing a cable cross.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m sorry for the blurry photo, I only realized that when I started writing this post)<\/p>\n<p>I thought about if I could live with that and decided that I couldn&#8217;t. So there was only one option:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1100.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-176\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1100.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"Image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I dropped the four stitches down to where the cross was missing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1102.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-178\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1102.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"Image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I distributed them onto two dpns, a little smaller than what I use for knitting the shawl, crossed them and reunited them on one dpn (Be sure you cross them in the right direction. You don&#8217;t want to do this twice, believe me&#8230; )<\/p>\n<p>Next, I used the strand directly above the four stitches to knit them, and then the strand above that and so on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-186\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1103.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"Image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, only four strands are left. Almost done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-188\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/dscn1106.jpg?w=650\" alt=\"Image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the repaired owl, as if nothing ever happened. Okay, they are not the tidiest stitches in the world, but that will block out.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing I realized, the purl stitch next to the owl had dropped. I think I need a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been knitting like crazy this morning because I wanted to finish my shawl and show you a photo of it. But then I saw this: One naughty owl was missing a cable cross. (I&#8217;m sorry for the blurry photo, I only realized that when I started writing this post) I thought about if I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=169\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emergency Owlperation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4,7,10,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}